The illuminated books of the Middle Ages : an account of the development and progress of the art of illumination, as a distinct branch of pictorial ornamentation, from the IVth to the XVIIth centuries

by: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879; Jones, Owen, 1809-1874

Publication date: 1849

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: Illumination of books and manuscripts

Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans

Collection: folkscanomy_miscellaneous; folkscanomy; additional_collections

Language: English

"The Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages : (A history of them from the IVth to the XVIIth Century.) An account of the development and progress of the art of illumination, as a distinct branch of pictorial ornamentation, from the IVth. to the XVIIth. centuries. By Henry Noel Humphreys. Illustrated by a series of examples, of the size of the originals, selected from the most beautiful Mss. of the various periods, executed on stone and printed in colours by Owen Jones."

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